The Justice Department and five states on Monday announced a $20 billion final settlement of claims arising from the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. BP has reached an $18.7 ...

There has been no shortage of tragedy and heartbreak attached to what may already be the greatest environmental catastrophe in U.S. history. But elements of strangeness and irony have also been ...

Many experts say cleanup efforts for oil spills are "largely ineffective," especially when leaks occur in large bodies of ...

BP Chief Executive Murray Auchincloss said that global oil demand continued to surprise to the upside, speaking at the Energy ...

Concerns from Okemah residents about their drinking water quality after photos of an oil spill in Okemah lake circulated ...

More than six years on from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, BP has finally released a ‘reliable estimate’ of the final bill. Having recently taken steps to resolve all of the outstanding claims ...

However, offshore oceanic impacts are less well understood. The BP oil spill is introducing oil and methane gas into the deep water of the Gulf of Mexico. Previous studies on deepwater drilling ...

The Gulf of Mexico oil spill, also known as Deepwater Horizon oil spill, after the name of the BP drilling platform which exploded on 20 April 2010, is the largest oil spill in US history.